Mercedes-Benz beVisioneers Fellowship Program 2027 for young innovators (Fully Funded)

Application Deadline: thirty first January 2027, 23:59:59 Central European Time

Applications at the moment are open for the 2027 Mercedes-Benz beVisioneers Fellowship Program. beVisioneers is a worldwide fellowship that equips innovators aged 18 to twenty-eight from all backgrounds with the coaching, knowledgeable assist  and assets to show early stage environmental options into lasting impression.

Designed and applied by The DO School Fellowships and funded by Mercedes-Benz, beVisioneers: The Mercedes-Benz Fellowship launched in 2023 to equip 1000’s of young individuals all over the world with the instruments and assets to implement and scale environmental tasks for a sustainable planet.

As a participant, you’ll embark on two yr fellowship journey. Starting with a 12-month intensive, requiring a minimal of 24 hours monthly dedication, the place you’ll acquire abilities, networks and information to launch a market-tested prototype with entry enterprise teaching, mentoring and undertaking scholarships.

Environmental Projects Supported

The fellowship helps young innovators growing options to environmental challenges throughout areas resembling:

• Community environmental resilience
• Climate motion
• Circular economic system
• Sustainable mobility
• Biodiversity and conservation
• Waste discount
• Renewable power
• Sustainable agriculture

Eligibility Requirements

For the 2027 Fellowship, this system accepting functions solely from residents these learning, residing or residing in 🇪🇺 Europe, 🇮🇳 India, 🇮🇩 Indonesia, 🇰🇪 Kenya, 🇲🇾 Malaysia, 🇲🇽 Mexico, 🇷🇼 Rwanda, 🇿🇦 South Africa, 🇹🇿 Tanzania, 🇺🇬 Uganda, 🇺🇸 USA, and 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe for the period of the fellowship. Applicants should presently stay in one in all these nations and plan to remain in one in all them when implementing in the course of the creation of their undertaking. Fellows might transfer between eligible nations, however can’t relocate to a rustic that isn’t on this record.

Selection Criteria

To be eligible for the beVisioneers Fellowship, candidates should:

• Be between 18 and 28 years outdated on the time of making use of
• Reside in one of many eligible nations listed in Question 1, and stay there for the vast majority of every fellowship yr (>9 months), implementing their undertaking in that very same nation
• Have a very good command of English
• Show sturdy dedication to constructive environmental change and entrepreneurial spirit — together with persistence, resilience, and dedication
• Have an current undertaking, or a powerful thought for one, that’s actually planet-positive (see our definition in Question 7)
• Not work for Mercedes-Benz, and never have a mum or dad or guardian who does

Benefits

You’ll acquire entry to:

• At the tip of the primary yr, it is possible for you to to entry undertaking scholarships for as much as €15,000 to advance your undertaking’s improvement.
• Innovation coaching by means of on-line modules
• Community-based Local Hub gatherings
• International journey Opportunities to Regional Summits
• Regular entry to enterprise coaches and 1:1 mentoring
• Expert and peer assist that will help you obtain your environmental management and undertaking targets.

Part-time

Designs to work round your work or college schedule!

Mentoring & Venture Coaching

Get entry to 1:1 mentoring and enterprise teaching to assist your tasks take form and speed up

Project scholarships

Opportunities to win scholarships for as much as €15,000 to develop your tasks and make impression in your native communities

A hybrid studying expertise

A hybrid studying expertise, permitting you to satisfy with our crew, specialists and different Fellows at program occasions

Fully funded with journey Opportunities

A funded fellowship the place journey, lodging and bills are paid for, for key program occasions

Financial assist

Apply for monetary assist to allow participation n the Fellowship – for instance for entry to a laptop computer or web connection – based mostly on a wants evaluation

Program Details

Year One

• Year 1 of the multi-year Fellowship is a 12-month foundational innovation program, the place you’ll acquire abilities, networks and information to launch a market-tested prototype with entry enterprise teaching, mentoring and undertaking scholarships

Year 2 & Alumni

In Year 2, the Acceleration Year, Fellows scale their ventures into sustainable impression tasks tackling urgent environmental challenges. Having earned deeper entry to enterprise teaching, scaling mentors, and skills-gap workshops, Fellows obtain monetary assist by means of undertaking scholarships and a cost-of-living stipend, plus connections — by way of international summits, knowledgeable workshops, and community occasions — that maintain their tasks lengthy after the fellowship ends.

After finishing the multi-year beVisioneers Fellowship, you be a part of our Alumni Network and acquire entry to our international ecosystem of traders, accelerators, specialists, local weather scientists, and companions. You’ll additionally unlock new Opportunities together with talking at one in all our international occasions as an knowledgeable, and extra.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Mercedes-Benz beVisioneers Fellowship Program